On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 06:02:35PM +0100, Charles Jardine wrote: > > $obj is not a string. It is an object of a class which has a > stringify operator. "$obj" is a string, because "..." stringifies. > > It is not at all clear how the DBI should take a copy of an object.
Without any method attributes in the bind_param call the driver is free to 'do something reasonable' which typically means treat the value as a string (or a number if it knows the field is numric). > I think this is a case of user error. It would be reasonable for a driver to complain if passed an object that doesn't have string/numeric overloading, but this one does. Tim.
